Where Does the Word Dionysian Come from?

adjective: Uninhibited; undisciplined; spontaneous; wild; orgiastic. ETYMOLOGY: After Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility in Greek mythology.

What did Nietzsche mean by Dionysian?

Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and music, and Nietzsche identifies the Dionysian as a frenzy of self-forgetting in which the self gives way to a primal unity where individuals are at one with others and with nature.

What does Dionysian refer to?

In Greco-Roman religion, Dionysus is a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy.